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Predicate   /prˈɛdəkˌeɪt/  /prˈɛdɪkət/   Listen
Predicate

noun
1.
(logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula.
2.
One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements.  Synonym: verb phrase.
verb
(past & past part. predicated; pres. part. predicating)
1.
Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.
2.
Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.  Synonym: proclaim.
3.
Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.  Synonym: connote.



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"Predicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... ask whether a formal concept exists is nonsensical. For no proposition can be the answer to such a question. (So, for example, the question, 'Are there unanalysable subject-predicate propositions?' cannot be asked.) ...
— Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus • Ludwig Wittgenstein
... the hat expand: wax wide, and swell! Such is its size that none can predicate Or hair, or head, or shoulders of the frame Below thIs bulk, this beauty-burying bulk; Trespassing rude on all who walk beside, Brutally blinding all ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... that notion had struck Rhoda Vivian too, and if she were trying to make up for it. He had noticed that Miss Quincey had the power (if you could predicate power of such a person), a power denied to him, of drawing out the woman-hood of the most beautiful woman in the world; some infinite tenderness in Rhoda answered to the infinite absurdity in her. He was not sure that her attitude to Miss Quincey was not the most beautiful thing ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... Wyoming,' and many lyrics. His poetry is careful, scholarlike and polished. Men whose undegenerate spirit, &c. In prose, this would run, "(Ye) men whose spirit has been proved (to be) undegenerate," &c. The word "undegenerate," which is introduced only as an epithet, is the real predicate of ...
— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous
... be straining the point, nor be dealing in poetical fancies, if we should predicate upon the introduction of the English lark into American society a supplementary influence much needed to unify and nationalise the heterogeneous elements of our population. Men, women, and children, speaking all the languages ...
— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt


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